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Microsoft adds Apple Silicon/M1 support to Visual Studio Code 1.54

If you’re a developer, this is going to come in handy. Microsoft on Friday announced that the company has now included support for M1 Macs for its Visual Studio Code software, beginning with version 1.54. The company offered the following comments: We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this […]

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VLC update to 3.0.0

Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 3.0.0. The new version, a 46.8 megabyte download, adds a massive series of changes and fixed documented over on the changelog. VLC 3.0.0 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS […]

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Apple to use iOS 12 to focus on stability and performance as opposed to wheeling out loads of new features

You shouldn’t go looking to iOS 12 for huge, splashy new features. Instead, Apple will apparently be giving iOS 12 the Snow Leopard/Mac OS X 10.6 treatment and working on targeting stability, performance, and reliability as opposed to adding in loads of new features. The strategy helped fix what was becoming a growing list of […]

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iStat Menus 6 offers massive number of new features and improvements

If you enjoy monitoring all aspects of your Mac, you’re going to like this. On Monday, Bjango released version 6.00 of iStat Menus, its popular system monitoring software. The new version offers tools to keep track of CPU, memory, disk, network, temperature, fan, Bluetooth, date and time and weather functions. The update offers extensive new […]

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Wikileaks publishes two more Mac-specific exploits from CIA Vault 7 files

If you’re interested in security, you’ll like this. Wikileaks has just Wikileaks published two more Mac exploits from the so-called CIA Vault 7 under the name Project Imperial. The new exploits—Achilles and SeaPea—affect older versions of OS X, such as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. The exploits behave […]